And that’s why it’s all the more impressive that someone on the RC Groups forum has used a 3D printer to make a fully-functional scale model of a Boeing 787’s GE-built turbofan jet engine.

This guy decided that what he wants to build with his printer is a jet engine ... to a model aircraft, this thrust would be enough to taxi it down the runway. If you still think 3D printers ...

He’s designed a rather awesome jet engine in 3D Software, and printed it on his UP Plus printer. The engine itself is a cutaway model of a high-bypass turbofan engine. While we’re not sure ...

GE creates a little-engine-that-could using an advanced metal 3D-printing technique and then put it through testing like a full-size engine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

The engine in question is actually a 3D-printed model, designed by GE. Although its parts move in the same way as a real jet engine, it's scaled down, simplified, made of 3D printer material ...

Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment ... You do need a few ball bearings and some M2 hardware, but it is mostly 3D printed. True turbojets are most often found on military ...

SEE MORE In the incredible evolution of 3D-printing capabilities, GE engineers have made a tiny jet engine that can go ... the ability to go “right from a model or idea to making a part.” ...

Still in working order, the small engine was used for auxiliary power in aircraft such as the Falcon 20 business jet. Led by Prof ... with testing of a 3D-printed engine expected to take place ...

Beehive Industries, a company that 3D prints jet engines for unmanned military vehicles, will ramp up production at its Knoxville facility with the help of a new $12.4 million contract sponsored ...